Instinct Quotes

"Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts."
-Rita Mae Brown

"I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
-Bertrand Russell

"The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct."
-Cicero

"It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
-Katharine Butler Hathaway

"There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis."
-Malcolm Gladwell

"Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking."
-Malcolm Gladwell

"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage."
-Wendell Phillips

"Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius."
-Josh Billings

"If your instinct is that someone is not good in your life, then you should follow that instinct."
-Marla Paul

"Style is primarily a matter of instinct."
-Bill Blass

"My gut instinct is they need to do something in the $350 million range to be seen as 'Disney's on its way back in animation,'."
-Rich Greenfield

"You try to get the killer instinct and when you get to that position you have to play harder, but we would make the crucial mistake."
-Richard Thurin

"Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness."
-John Sterling

"They both have a killer instinct. They hate to lose and they always bring it on meet days."
-Chris Huffins

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."
-Billy Wilder

"We let a couple guys get some confidence and they did a nice job capitalizing, but we have got to get that killer instinct and close the game."
-Adam Sullivan

"It's our social instinct when things go bad."
-Barry Ancelet

"This festival has always been, even in good times, a festival of cultural survival and we're surviving again. It's our social instinct when things go bad."
-Barry Ancelet

"Mortgage lending is an opportunistic business and when business declines, the instinct is to consolidate to become more efficient, and that is what we are seeing."
-Celia Chen

"Pure instinct. That's a young boy out there doing what he does best. Reacting."
-Pedro Mart

"If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence."
-Will Cuppy

"He had the microphone first, the instinct to broadcast, to be there. He didn't hesitate. He scooped the world."
-Peter Arnett